A skill your agent uses when acting as the cadence governor — slices a raw task description into thin, end-to-end-complete pieces before any spec is written; produces a structured slicing record for…

Custom licenceAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Carpaccio

skills CLI
$ npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill carpaccio -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers carpaccio --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/carpaccio .claude/skills/carpaccio && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
carpaccio
GitHub stars
114
Token cost
~1.8k tokens
SKILL.md length
954 words
Files
3 (incl. references)
Skills in repo
42
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses when acting as the cadence governor — slices a raw task description into thin, end-to-end-complete pieces before any spec is written; produces a structured slicing record for…

  • Works in 3 steps: Apply the lens priority… → Cluster candidates that share a decision… → Record what was clustered or dropped in…
  • Acting as the cadence governor — slices a raw task description into thin
  • SKILL.md covers Intellectual Foundations, Non-Goals, Routing Rule (carpaccio vs.… and The Lenses, plus 4 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Carpaccio is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers. Use when acting as the cadence governor — slices a raw task description into thin, end-to-end-complete pieces before any spec is written; produces a structured slicing record for human disposition; runs at orchestrator step 0

Its SKILL.md is about 1.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 3 other files, including reference files (for example `references/slicing-lenses.md` and `references/validation-checks.md`).

It sits in Testing & QA. The repository describes itself as: A set of Claude Code and GitHub Copilot plugins providing the AI Literacy framework's complete development workflow — harness engineering, agent orchestration, literate….

When your agent uses it

  • Acting as the cadence governor — slices a raw task description into thin
  • End-to-end-complete pieces before any spec is written
  • Produces a structured slicing record for human disposition
  • Runs at orchestrator step 0

Example prompts

  • “/carpaccio”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Apply the lens priority (decision-boundary first).
  2. Cluster candidates that share a decision or acceptance criterion
  3. Record what was clustered or dropped in `## Explicitly not

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9d35995. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Carpaccio loads about 1.8k tokens when it runs, and up to ~4k if it reads all its reference files. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 954 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.8k
With references · SKILL.md plus every file in references/, read only if the agent opens them
~4k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 954 words (~1,790 tokens).

“You are the cadence governor in the decision-discipline triad. Your charter is to thin the stream of proposals arriving at the human: take a raw task description and slice it into pieces small enough that the human can engage with…”

— opening of SKILL.md by Habitat-Thinking, Custom licence
name
carpaccio

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (references) in ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/carpaccio of Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.

  • SKILL.md
  • references/slicing-lenses.md
  • references/validation-checks.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9d35995

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Categories

Questions about Carpaccio

What does Carpaccio do?

A skill your agent uses when acting as the cadence governor — slices a raw task description into thin, end-to-end-complete pieces before any spec is written; produces a structured slicing record for…. Carpaccio is an agent skill from Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers.

When should I use Carpaccio?

Carpaccio fits situations like: acting as the cadence governor — slices a raw task description into thin; end-to-end-complete pieces before any spec is written; produces a structured slicing record for human disposition; runs at orchestrator step 0.

How do I install Carpaccio in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill carpaccio -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/carpaccio in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .claude/skills/carpaccio in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Carpaccio in Codex?

Run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill carpaccio -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (ai-literacy-superpowers/skills/carpaccio in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers) into .agents/skills/carpaccio in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Carpaccio in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers --skill carpaccio -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/carpaccio, .gemini/skills/carpaccio, .github/skills/carpaccio and .opencode/skills/carpaccio in your project.

What does Carpaccio need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Carpaccio is instructions for the agent only.

Does Carpaccio access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Carpaccio safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Carpaccio use?

Carpaccio has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Carpaccio use?

About 1.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 7.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full. Its references folder adds about 2.2k tokens, read only when the agent opens those files.

What are the alternatives to Carpaccio?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Carpaccio: Web Application Testing (anthropics/skills, 180k stars), Diagnosing Bugs (fossasia/eventyay-interpretation, 1.6k stars), TDD (pietheinstrengholt/rssmonster, 564 stars) and TDD Workflow (hellangleZ/burn-in-cceverywhere-ralph, 112 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Carpaccio?

Habitat-Thinking (a GitHub organization) maintains it in Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers, which has 114 GitHub stars. The repository holds 42 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 20, 2026.

Source: Habitat-Thinking/ai-literacy-superpowers on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.